Re: Package that will install in Fedora to view files on Android Phones.

29 Oct 2013

      On 10/29/2013 05:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com 
mailto:ibmalone@gmail.com> wrote:
On 28 October 2013 22:09, Jim <binarynut@comcast.net
<mailto:binarynut@comcast.net>> wrote:
> Isn't there a Package on Fedora repo that you can install so as
to view
> files on Android Phones by USB ??

Some will show up as USB mass storage (or at least let you access an
attached sd card by that method). I've got a samsung which is locked
down for that (and I don't want to have to root it), in which case you
have to use MTP. For access in KDE I've got kio_mtp installed.
simple-mtpfs works for me if I need command line access. The phone
needs to be unlocked while accessing it.

+1
Just be aware that MTP doesn't give you a "real" filesystem, e.g. IIRC 
there's no seeking and files cannot be modified in place or even 
directly overwritten, just read, written and deleted. simple_mtpfs 
does some caching to try to disguise this but it's useful to know.
poc
Patrick, where does one get simple-mtpfs.